Joann Brennan is a dedicated educator, accomplished artist, and academic leader with over thirty-four years of experience in higher education.
She has taught photography at the University of Rhode Island, School of Art and Design at the State University of New York, and Princeton University.
Her artwork has been presented in exhibitions and publications nationally and internationally. In addition, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2003 and a Smithsonian Fellowship from the Smithsonian Museum of American Art in 2010.
Since joining the faculty of the College of Arts & Media (CAM) in 1998, she has focused her efforts on enhancing the success and well-being of students, faculty, and staff, in projects and initiatives at the course, program, college, campus and system level. Over the past eighteen years she has been called upon to serve in a variety of leadership roles including; CAM ArtsBridge Director, Chair of the Visual Arts Department, CAM Associate Dean, Associate Vice Chancellor for Faculty Affairs at CU South Denver, and Interim Associate Vice Chancellor for Faculty Affairs at CU Denver.
She is currently an Interim Co-Dean in the College of Arts & Media at CU Denver.
In 2006 and 2010 she was elected to the National Board of Directors for the Society for Photographic Education (SPE). In 2008, she developed, led, and provided the vision for the highly successful SPE National Conference in Denver titled “Agents of Change: Art and Advocacy.” She applies a human-centered equity-minded approach to empowering and serving others, values inclusive collaboration as critical to advancing impactful creative solutions, and strives to enhance a community of belonging, purpose, and joy.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion